“There was a time when the community that was on the Net was homogenous and civilized. Now it’s not. We’re in the middle of chaos... But the alternative is that there’s a total meltdown of the system and that it becomes unusable. That would be a catastrophe.” - Robert Cailliau
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Replying to @twithoff
Yes, exactly! Multiuser, Mass Multiuser BBSs and many other Internet protocols prior to 1993 available did have moderated, tight-knit communities with more warmth in my experience. It's been hard to replicate on Web without community turning into mass, often unethical mass media.

Apr 18, 2021 · 1:42 PM UTC

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Indeed. My first experience with international chat was on a 300 baud Hayes external model, a Commodore 64 and QLink BBS chats. It was in that moment as a fairly young woman I had the first awakening that the world was going to disrupt and change. And so it has, and so it does.
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